Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI have been working on remastering some audiobooks from there, once I got more books done, I will have a proper section for people to download them for free from my website (direct links from the listing, no bs). Remastering as in removing background noise, EQing, compression and normalization of audio levels and reducing the librivox intro to the start of the audiobook only, rather than annoying people every chapter.
Hey, so I'm the very part time volunteer sysadmin for LibriVox, can I use this opportunity to ask for help? I have a day job and two kids, the amount of time and energy I give to LibriVox is sufficient to keep the lights on, but not much else. We don't have money, in fact we don't even have a legal entity, any donations we get are handled by Internet Archive, who also kindly provide us our two servers (yes…
Another site, which includes a smaller but more professionally curated set of recordings, is Lit2Go (https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/books/). My children and I for example have greatly enjoyed Lorraine Montgomery’s recording of “Curly and Floppy Twistytail”, a series of delightful nonsense stories performed with gusto. (https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/183/curly-and-floppy-twistytail-t...) They’re not all aimed at children either, high quality recordings of Dracula, David Copperfield, etc
University of South Florida has an amazing program called Lit2Go, in which they have public domain books narrated by professional voice actors[0]. I have had mixed results with the quality of librivox recordings, though I very much respect and appreciate people who are willing to attempt it. Lit2go is wonderful quality. [0] http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 5
- Total points
- 1204
- Total comments
- 266
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-08 | Librivox – free public domain audiobooks | bmaeser | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-11-05 | LibriVox – free public domain audiobooks | Amorymeltzer | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-02-20 | LibriVox: free public domain audiobooksFirst breakout | pmoriarty | 179 | 37 |
| 2020-06-03 | LibriVox – free public domain audiobooks | itsspring | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-06-18 | LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks | drummer | 286 | 81 |
| 2021-11-29 | Free public domain audiobooksHall induction · Best thread | agmm | 370 | 59 |
| 2023-05-07 | Free Public Domain Audiobooks | doener | 103 | 22 |
| 2025-01-27 | LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks | archargelod | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-06-01 | LibriVoxLatest 20+ point return | bookofjoe | 259 | 67 |
